The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-02-26
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April Z.
KANSAS has voted municipal suffrage to
women.
A NEW theory is that lock-jaw is con-
tagious.
FLORIDA is shipping her spring tomatoes
northward.
WITHIN the tropics the winds blow from
east to west.
"a NEW white, gauzy dress stuff is lightly
called angels wings.
The United States Colleges contains 49,
600 female students.
NEW YORK CITY consumes $l7,000,000
worth of milk every year.
Six new counties are to be carved out Of
Tom Green County, Texas.
HoTHoUsE strawberries are selling In
Boston at thirty cents each.
CHRISTINE NILSSON was married to Count
Casa Miranda, few days ago.
A CLUMSY Nashvillan has dropped wad
Of $3.50 into sewer, irretrievably.
THERE is little probability Of decision
in the big telephone suit before next fall.
A BILL to give convicts college educa-
ton is before the Wisconsin Legislature.
In Kentucky last year nearly 100000
bushels more of corn were raised than in
1885.
Two thousand eight hundred divorces
were granted in the United States last
year.
THE Emperor Of China has expressed q
great desire to taste Mclean porkee-
beanee.
LUCY STONE predicts that a woman will
be President of the United States in the
year 1000.
BoTH houses Of the Nevada Legislature
have adopted resolutions DISTINGUISHING
Mormons.
A GROSS Of steel pens, once costing THU ty-
five dollars, may now be produced for
eight cents.
New YORK girls, tired of the gaieties Of
the season, have turned their hands to
cooking to kill time.
THE pay of q member of the Maine Leg
islature is fixed at $50 for the session, be
1t long or short one.
EMMETT BORDERS, a siXteen-year-oldb boy
OF Audubon, Iowa, died recently from ex-
cessive use Of tobacco.
THE second annual session of the for
estry congress was held at De Funiak
Springs few days ago.
The removal of New Orleans Judge for
malfeasance in office has caused consider
able comment in the press.
UNGER, hero Of the headless corpse
tragedy, seems to be real tender-hearted
assassin. He wept in court.
JOHN harden has been a regular sub
scriber of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald, that
paper says, for fifty-nine years.
AT Council Bluffs, Ia, the other day, a
woman was divorced in the morning and
married again in the afternoon.
In attempting to enter the canal at Men,
asha, Wis, 14O-pound sturgeon grounded
on a sandbar and WAS captured.
Mrs MACKAY is reported to have &C.
quired brilliant sapphire from a needy
Russian prince for the trifle of $4,000.
The majority of Bostonians are Irish
men. Out of population Of 5000 it is
said 100000 are Irish by birth or descent.
The Hawaiian Government has just an
nexed Ocean Island, which is described as
sandbank 200 miles from the Hawaiian
group.
GENERAL MIDDLETON. commander of the
Canadian militia, says it is absurd to talk
Of war between the United States and
England.
The patron saint of Valentine Day was
beheaded. Some writers of valentine
poetry might appropriately be served the
same way.
WILLIAM L. SCoTT, of Erie, Pa, is said
to be the largest individual coal worker in
the world. He employs 10000 men in min.
ing and shipping.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON, second son of
Prince Jerome Napoleon (Plon-Plon) has
asked permission to accompany the Italian
troops to Massewah.
SAMUEL MURFITT, of Upton, England,
has just died. He was six feet one inch in
height, measured 100 inches around the
waist and weighed $50 pounds.
THE Duke of Marlborough recently said
that he supposed the only chance left open
to him since he had been so cut by Eng
lish society was to marry an American
heiress.
THERE 10 dog at Magog, Quebec, that
will mount the toboggan sled, 20 down the
slide, draw the sled back, and 60 down
again as many times as his owner COM
mands him.
A BOLD gang Of American thieves is
making big hauls in Canada. There is
retribution in this. Canada has for years
been making big hauls Of American THE voc,
plumber and all.
Ina great storm Of snow and sleet re.
Gently, in England, the wing of rocks froze'
fast to their bodies, and hundreds of the
birds were killed by falling from trees,
being unable to fly.
IT is reported from Maine that the Eng
lish sparrdws are growing white, as re-
suit OF their becoming acclimated. White
feathers have been often noticed this win
ter on the sparrows.
In Montana during the winter COWBOYS
make living by killing mountain lions,
for which bounty of eight dollars per
head is paid. The animals are ferocious
and some are very large.
The marriage Of Lulu Hurst. the mag.
netic girl OF Georgia, to her manager, calls
attention to the fact that almost any girl
with fortune of 500, 200 in her own right,
is more or less of magnet,
VALENTINE DAY has come and gone-the
day when old maids receive pictures of
washerwomen with extension teeth, and
dainty dudes are presented with life-like
portraits Of hod-carriers and sausage-ped
dlers.
LET Georgia exhibit her magnetic GIRLS